293 vs < 400 Thousand American dead in WW2
I don't think that's what's being said here. I don't have stats, but how many died of malaria and yellow fever in the Pacific theater, even poison snake bite. Ships were lost in Typhoons and Hurricanes. Some losses were troops that were just simple unaccounted for perhaps MIA's? This makes sense and could bring up the total. And yes accidents occurred as well. BTW we did bomb ourselves several times in Normandy during operation Cobra I'm not sure how these deaths are categorized? I could see how all these could combine to increase the American dead by slightly over 25%.
I don't think that's what's being said here. I don't have stats, but how many died of malaria and yellow fever in the Pacific theater, even poison snake bite. Ships were lost in Typhoons and Hurricanes. Some losses were troops that were just simple unaccounted for perhaps MIA's? This makes sense and could bring up the total. And yes accidents occurred as well. BTW we did bomb ourselves several times in Normandy during operation Cobra I'm not sure how these deaths are categorized? I could see how all these could combine to increase the American dead by slightly over 25%.